Posted on 11/30/2014 4:05:49 PM PST by Mariamante
The Los Angeles public school district will pay more than $139.2 million to the families of 81 children allegedly abused by an elementary teacher now serving a prison sentence for lewd conduct, officials said Friday. John Manly, one of the plaintiffs' attorney, called the amount "the largest settlement in the history of the United States against a public entity involving child abuse."
The settlement comes after the district earlier paid $30 million to settle 63 other students' claims alleging they were victims of sexually lewd acts by Mark Berndt of Miramonte Elementary. A teacher for 30 years, Berndt is now serving a 25-year prison sentence for putting pupils in bondage, and then photographing them with semen-filled spoons held at their mouths and 3-inch cockroaches crawling across their faces.
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Ping.
I’m sure he we’ll be hearing about this again and again for many years from the media, just like the problems with Catholic priests.
I think it should be the teachers union paying these settlements.
Unfortunately it is taxpayers that pay
The lawyers will get 40% of the money.
They don’t care. It’s not their money, it is courtesy of We the People. Getting your money’s worth yet??
You would be surprised to know that this issue is much more pervasive outside of the Catholic church. If these were Catholic schools they would make national headlines around the world.
As the second largest school district in the United States, $139,000,000 is pocket change for Los Angeles Unified School District. Their annual budget is 6,780,000,000 dollars or 6.78 billion dollars. That makes the $139 million dollars payout to the 81 families whose children were molested and exposed to the known child predator for years, a mere 2% of what the school district gets per year from taxpayers and from the Federal government.
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